Apparatus for bottling soda-water



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O. C. HALEY. APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING SODA WATER, 6:0, No 396,928.Patented Jan. 29, 1889.

INVENTOFF Charles G Hwley,

BY fwd/Q ATT'YS.

N. PETERS. Phnlo-Lxlhognpher, Washinglom D4 C.

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O. C. HALEY.

APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING SODA WATER, 8w No. 896,928. Patented Jan. 29,1889;

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W ww. (names-Glide? llnirnn STATES CHARLES C. HALEY, OF NENARK, NElVJERSEY.

APPARATU S F0 R BOTTLI N G 80 DA-WATER, 84 0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,928, dated January29, 1889.

Application filed December 22, 1887- Serial No. 258,654. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lHARLES O. lElALEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for BottlingSoda- Water, &c.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to lettersof reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the process of bottlingsoda and mineral waters or other fluids impregnated with gas underpressure, and to carry on said process without waste or loss of liquid.

The invention consists in the improved bottling machine or device havingthe arrangements and combinations of parts substantially as will behereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, embraced in two sheets, in whichlike letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of theseveral figures, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved bottlingapparatus, and Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same. Fig. 3is a transverse section of the bored shaft, taken across theescape-passage thereof.

In said drawings, a, a indicate suitable posts or standards, whichprovide bearings for a shaft, Z), and sleeve or collar d, the first ofsaid parts being permanently secured on one of said posts or standardsand extending through the said sleeve or collar, as shown in Fig. 2. Theshaft 1) and the bore or central aperture in the sleeve tapercorrespondingly, and thus allow wear to be taken up, so that there canbe no leakage occasioned thereby.

Upon the sleeve cl are formed suitable frames or bottle-holders adaptedto hold the bottles thereto, so that they will revolve therewith, thepreferred construction being such as is shown in the (in wings. Of saidframes, 0 0 indicate radial rods disposed sufficiently apart to allowthe insertion of the bottles therebetween, said rods being preferablyscrewed into threaded lugs e 6 formed on the sleeve. At their outer endssaid rods 0 are connected by plates or bars ff, which slide or may slideon said rods or be adjusted to adapt the frame for bottles of varyingsizes, the space 0 for the bottles being reduced by means of set oradjustable nuts or screws 9 g, adapted to turn on the threadedextremities of said rods, or by other suitable means.

About midway between the rods 0 c the sleeve (Z is provided with heads71- h, adapted to receive the heads of the bottles when the latter arearranged in the frame-work. Said heads h h may be of any suitableconstruction, but are preferably as indicated in Fig. 2,111 which c' iare lugs or sockets and j j rubber or elastic packing or cushions, withwhich the heads of the bottles may make an impervious joint, adapted toprevent the escape of liquid under the pressure of the gas. 7c arecollars for holding said packing j j in place 011 the sockets. Saidpackings are perforated at U, the perforations corresponding withpassages m 077. through the sleeve.

\Vithin the shaft 19 is formed a passage, n, Fig. 2, adapted to lead thesirup .and gas-impregnated water to the heads h, and thus into thebottle, said passage or connecting with any ordinary gage or device fordealing out sirup and with reservoirs of waterimpregnated with gas inthe ordinary manner. The said passage it leads through the continuation26 into but one of the passages m at a time, the rotation of the sleeveon the spindle or shaft 1) serving to cause the passage a to communicatewith one and then the other of the pas,- sages, as will be understood.At or toward the opposite end of the shaft or spindle from that havingthe passage a is a central passage, opening, or boring, 0, havingtherein a valve-rod, 1). From said boring extend divergent passages r7",Wl1l(3ll lead into the passages in the heads 71, and are closed bymeans of the said valve-rod p. Said rod 19 is closed and opened by meansof a system of levers, q r s, or by means of any other suitable construction; but when said lovers are employed I prefer to arr nge them asshown in the drawings, in which a forked end, q, of the lever q engagesthe projecting end t of the valve-rod p, and is adapted to move the samelongitudinally within the shaft or spindle b, said lever (1 beingfulcrumedon a projection, u, of a crank, o. A spring, 10, interposedbetween the lever and said crank 1), serves to hold said valve-rod inits closed position automatically. The lever s of the series is alsofulcrumed on the crank o, as at .9 and is connected with the lever g bythe connection 1. By depressing the handle 5 of the lever s the lever qis operated, so that it withdraws the valve-rod from the divergentpassages, forming a continuous passage from one head h to the other. Thehandle 5 also serves as a handle for the crank 1), so that the lattermay be conven- I 5 iently turned pivot-ally with the sleeve or collar d,to which said crank is securely fixed. The shaft and spindle aresecurely locked, so as not to allow any independent lateral movement bymeans of lock-nuts a: or other suitable means.

To hold the head of the bottle into close engagement with the seat orhead h, I may employ a clamp, 2, adapted to engage the bottom of thebottle and force said bottle into intimate engagement with said head 71.To this end I prefer to arrange on the cross-bars f ears 3, betweenwhichcam-levers l are fulcrumed. Said cam-levers engage a bearing, 5, seatedon springs 15, interposed between said bear- 0 ings 5 and the cross-barsf. Each of said bearings 5 is provided with a shank, 6, with which ascrew-shank, 7, formed or arranged on the clamp-head 8, engages. Bydepressing the cam-lever at the clamp-head is forced 3 5 into intimatecontact with the bottom of the bottle, and by a return movement of saidcamlever the springs 9 are allowed to act to raise said clamp-head fromthe bottle.

The clamp-head may be lined with rubber, 4o 10, or other soft or elasticpliable material, to allow for slight variations in the sizes of thebottles and to cushion the contact of the bottle with the clamp.

The clamp may be formed andbe adapted to be operated in a variety ofways without avoiding the invention; but I prefer the constructiondescribed because of its simplicity.

To allow the escape of air from the bottle in the operation of filling,as hereinafter described, I provide a certain automatic vent inconnection with the shaft or spindle b and the passage 71 therein. Saidvent consists of a cylindrical head, 16, suitably secured on saidshaft 1) or upon any other part of the device properly connectedtherewith. Said head 16 provides a valve-seat, bearings for a valverod,18, and also a vent pipe or passage, 19. The valve-rod 18 connects withsuitable mech- 6o anismsueh as levers 20 21the first of which isfulcrumed on an arm, 22, and the second on an arm, 23, of said head. Thelever 20 communicates with the lever 21 through a connection, 24:, andis operated by the sleeve (1 through the intervention of a double cam,

25, secured or formed on said sleeve.

In operating the device a bottle is placed in the upper of the twoframes, being preferably clamped therein by the mechanism abovedescribed. The crank ii is then turned, and with it the sleeve cl andthe frames thereon, until the bottle assumes the second position, withits head upward in the then lower frame. hen in this position, thepassage 01, leading from the water and sirup gage above referred to,opens into or is brought to a coincident position with one of theopenings orpassages m in the sleeve (1 and head It, and the water andsirup are thus allowed (the valve of said pump having been turned on inthe ordinary manner) to pass into and fill the bottle until the airtherein is brought to a pressure equal to that of the gased water, whenthe filling stops, leaving the bottle not quite sufficiently full. Whilethe first bottle is filling a second is arranged in the upper frame, andwhen the first bottle is in the partially-full condition above describedthe second or empty bottle is in an air-tight relation to its head h.The lever s is then depressed, and the valve-rod p is withdrawn from thepassages r 9", allowing a free communication between the two bottles andallowing the air of the lower bottle to be sniffed into the upperbottle, the escaping gas carrying with it a considerable quantity ofgas-impregnated water which heretofore has been wasted. The pressurebeing thus removed from the lower bottle, the water from the reservoirand sirup-gage is allowed to pass into the same to complete the filling.The crank is now turned another partial revolution, and the first bottleis brought to its first inverted position. A certain automatic stopperwithin the bottle then falls by' gravity into the mouth of the bottle.The handles 8 before the second bottle is brought into communicationwith the passage 92 are depressed, and the water and gas beneath or onthe outer side of the stopper thus in position are sniffed into saidsecond bottle, and the gas within. the first bottle immediately acts onthe stopper to cause the same to make a tight joint with the packing inthe neck there of. The first bottle may then be removed, the secondbottle brought into communication with the reservoir and sirup-gage byopening the valve of said gage, and a third bottle inserted into theempty frame-work. As the empty bottle (into which has been sniffed gasand water from the bottle having the gas under pressure) is turned down,while it passes downward with the sleeve (1 the opening or passage mcomes into communication with the portion 26 of the passage, (saidportion being of considerable width at the periphery of the shaft.) Atabout the quarter-point in the revolution the passages on, 26,communicate, as above stated, and at the same time the cam 25 opens thevalve or vent, and the air in the bottle is sniffed into the open air.The valve or vent then closes immediately, so that when the water fromthe reservoir and the sirup are turned on they will flow into the bottlein the lower frame and IIO not escape through the said valve and vent.The bottle to receive the liquid through the passage or duct or is thusempty or nearly empty of atmospheric air.

By the construction and operation above detailed it will be observedthat the water that was under or on the outer side of the stopper whenthe same was closed, and the water that was sniffed out when the bottlewas relieved of pressure, in order to allow the same to be filled tocompletion, is saved by being caused to pass into the empty bottle nextto be filled. The water and sirup are not only saved, but the same aresaved with the gas impressing the same, thus in the aggregate makingconsiderable difference in the cost of bottling, and also keeping thefioor of the bottling-establishment dry, or more so than heretofore.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. In abottling apparatus, the combination, with a shaft having a duct, n, asleeve, (I, having passages to coincide therewith, said sleeve beingadapted to revolve on said shaft, a plurality of bottle-holding frames,and a secondary passage, 7", across the shaft between the mouth-holdingportions of the bottle-frames, and a valve for controlling said passage,

' substantially as described, whereby the water and gas from a bottle inone frame may be sniffed into a bottle in another, substantially asherein set forth.

2. In combination, in a bottling apparatus, with a shaft having a duct,n, heads h 71, having ducts or passages Z, adapted to coincide with saidducts n, and revolving frames or bottle-holders adapted to hold theheads of the bottles into impervious engagement with said heads 71, andpassages or ducts 1' "1', providing open communication between the saidheads h h, and means, substantially as described, for closing suchcommunication, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, in a bottling apparatus, posts a a, a shaft, 1),having a duct, or, a sleeve, d, bottle-holders revolving with saidsleeve, heads h h, having passages ll, ducts or passages r, a valve forclosing communication between the same, and means 1) for revolving thesleeve, substantially as set forth.

4. In a bottling apparatus, the shaft having ducts or passages n, a ventadapted to be opened to allow the escape of air from the duct or passage01, frames revolving on said shaft and adapted to hold two independentbottles, a duct leading from one to the other of said bottles, andavalve for opening closed communication through said ducts, and meansfor revolving said frames, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this19th day of November, 1887.

CHAS. C. IIAIIEY.

Witnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, OSCAR A. MICHEL.

